Guess How Much a Single Piece of Thomas Jefferson's Hair Is Worth

Here's one from the annals of weird auctions and Founding Father fetishism: a lock of Thomas Jefferson's hair went on sale this weekend, and someone bought it for almost $7,000. The AP reports that the micro-mane, which the Declaration writer's physician snipped on his aristocratic death bed on July 4, 1826, was up for grabs 190 years later through Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas, on Saturday. It went for $6,875.

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Heritage spokesman Eric Bradley told the AP that the mop buyer wished to remain anonymous. (You don't say.) The seller was William F. Northrop, a collector (of what, exactly?) who bought the 14 strands of presidential hair in the 1980s.